One example is
Exp[I Pi]
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Bobby
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:42:12 -0500, <congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello MathGroup:
>
> Originally I was confused also about imaginary exponents also but help
> cleared that up.
>
> Help for Power also has this sentence: "For certain special arguments,
> Power automatically evaluates to exact values."
>
> Does this imply that for irrational and real exponents, they are
> "truncated" to rationals before they are evaluated?
>
> Thanks in advance for any info on this.
>
> Roger Williams
> Franklin Laboratory
>
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